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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am grateful for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I sat here last week and I did not interact with anyone other than when one of the guests offered me water.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: One cannot sit with one's back to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I have to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I have to speak in the Chamber. There are other speakers after me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the witnesses for staying with us. During the last hearings on this issue held by the Oireachtas in 2013, the former Senator, John Crown, asked obstetricians, including the masters of the Rotunda and National Maternity Hospital, if they knew of any instance where doctors were prevented from intervening to save a woman's life because of Ireland's legal ban on abortion, namely, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: That was a tragic case and there are many differing opinions about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Aside from that tragic situation, are there other cases?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I accept that. However, outside of that tragic case, the Savita case, were there other cases?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I also noted that at a previous all-party Oireachtas committee hearing on abortion in 2009, the then chairman of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Professor John Bonnar, submitted a position paper on abortion only after consulting with all members of the institute. I note Dr. Boylan stated today in his paper that he has also canvassed institute members' opinions. How many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Could Mr. Boylan enlighten us as to what kind of feedback he got, percentage-wise, from members?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: That was most of it. Did Dr. Boylan get any alternative views?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: But Dr. Boylan did not engage other than giving a view. What way did he advertise or contact them? How were they notified?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: That went to all of Dr. Boylan's colleagues. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: During an abortion procedure, the abortionist often uses ultrasound to help guide the instruments to grasp at its member, the baby. Does Dr. Boylan think that ethically this must be a difficult procedure for an obstetrician to perform? According to statements from the British Department of Health in 2011, the number of doctors unwilling to perform abortions is increasing. Why does Dr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Surely in the limited cases that it does happen, it is off-putting. Apart from the training issue – I understand that – the evidence is that the numbers of doctors who are unwilling to perform abortions is increasing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Does Professor Arulkumaran think it is all down to cost? Who vets those private agencies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am aware of that. We are speaking about abortion today. It is all down to cost, so.